Telly aboard...

I can categorically state that no boat I have ever owned has been fitted with a telly :) I don't get much time for watching TV even at home these days, so perhaps I have lost track of what programmes are worth watching.

When you retire (lucky chap) you will have plenty of time so saviour the delights of day time TV, which I am told is absolutely enthralling.

On a slightly more serious note - I think you will struggle to get decent TV reception in BYH - especially at low water - you really need something approaching line-of-sight to the transmitter

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You well may....

..."pick up european channels" on a PAL TV "weakly" but the sound will be faint if it exists at all (due to the different separation) and the picture ghostly. I can't agree that this indicates that WinTV is multi-standard.

Steve Cronin



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Re: One word Denbigh......

This is satellite jobbie, not terrestrial, so how do you get freeview? Or am I misreading......?

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When you retire you will have no time whatsoever to watch the telly! By the time you get round to all the jobs you've been putting off "untill I retire", and all the other ones that SWMBO has tucked up her sleeve, there just isn't enough hours in the day! !

Don't know how I ever had time to go to work!

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ah, that is where I have been a bit devious....
we have already done the 'sell up' (as in 'sell up and sail') and are living on the boat. Surprisingly, all the jobs to be done are MY sort of jobs - like re-tunig rigging, erecting goalposts for bimini, cleaning the teak (my share of rainforest)... as she is lightest, she has the pleasure of going up the mast... no garden to attend to, no drains to clear, no going to John Lewis to pick new bedding, no vacuum cleaning, no dusting, no.... no... no....

;-)

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Now I'm completely depressed, you lucky bu**er!

I just wish I'd got my life as well sussed as you seem to have.

Good Luck !

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WHAT???

NO vacuum cleaner?

First thing that got carried aboard after I announced that the fitting of the new (big) inverter was finished!

Steve Cronin

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I thought....

...that you started this post about receiving terrestrial stations too when you started talking about "...temporary aerials"

You are aware that "Freeview" is the digital service transmitted by terrestrial transmitters for whjich you require a digibox?

You won't get much of a satellite service on a lash up aerial.

Steve Cronin



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Re: I thought....

yeah, yeah... but RobP mentioned a digital SATELLITE receiver. It may actually be a better solution, tho I had not thought to go that route. It would mean finding and homing in on the satellite, and it wouldn't be much cop on a swinging mooring....but then, nor would a terrestrial.


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Re: You well may....

win tvcards do appear multistandard -- part of the set up procudure makes you select which PAL system you are using, or secam or I believe NTSC (but I can't swear to teh latter)

Further evidence is that if you bugger around witht eh PAL type is that when you re-tun you either picture or sound, but not both -- makes me think its adjustable for the different carriers
 
Re: WHAT???

Your first big mistake was the big inverter. We have an inverter, JUST big enough for the laptop or shaver. Not big enough for vacuum, hair dryer, microwave oven, electric kettle...

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